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Anorexia Blogs
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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Christopher Krumm reports on the online pro-ana movement.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 2
Bridge Jumper (A Survivor's Story)
From: WHPC
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An Interview with John Kevin Hines a suicide survivor

  • Added: Sep 09, 2008
  • Length: 06:05
#49 Marine Products for Research and Industry
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 04:07
#48 Marine Organisms as Models for Human Biology
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:53
#47 The Ocean as a Frontier for New Medicines
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:54
#46 Waterborne Diseases
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
#45 Oceans and Human Health I
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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A Short Essay by Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory

  • Added: Aug 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
Teen Baby Mamas
From: Listen Up New Orleans!
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Teen pregnancy in New Orleans

  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:50
Thinness and Salvation
From: Sarah Yahm
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a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 5
Teen Pregnancy - Part 3 - Moms Talk Back
From: Karen Brown
Series: Teen Pregnancy - A Crisis, A Response, A Reality
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Part 3 of Teen Pregnancy Series -- featuring the vibrant voices of teenage moms

  • Added: Jun 17, 2008
  • Length: 05:47
My Sister's Brain Cancer
From: Nanci Olesen
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a commentary by Nanci Olesen about her sister's brain cancer

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KXOT Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
Teen clinic keeps it real with patients
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Teens who work at the P.O.W.E.R. Teen Clinic in Anchorage, Alaska share why their personal life experiences give them the ability to relate to teen...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: May 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Boston Bandits: The outlaws of the Marathon community
From: Kris Carter
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The story of one unregistered Boston Marathon runner contrasted with Race Director, Dave McGillivray's thoughts of breaking the rules.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2008
  • Length: 09:30
Beauty and Pain - Science and Medicine in Berlin
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
Shelf Life Radio 1: America's Number One Vegetable
From: Amy Conger
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Taking a potato plant to McDonald's; what will they say?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 09:30
Comfort and Addiction
From: Amy Conger
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People speak candidly about food, comfort and compulsion

Bought by Vocalo.org and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 2
Solving the Homeless Youth Problem Takes a Unique Approach
From: Adam Vaughn
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Usual approaches to solving homelessness do not work for youths who are find themselves homeless.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:45
Washington State's Plan B Battle: A Precursor to the Supreme Court
From: Adam Vaughn
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In Washington State a battle over consitutional rights surrounding Plan Ba rages on. This is currently on a one-way road for the Supreme Court.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2008
  • Length: 03:41
Two Weeks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Laurie Williams (aka Crow) is preparing to die in the next two weeks.

Bought by HowSound, SALTcast Podcast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Saying Goodbye. . . Again
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A collection of the voices and sounds from the display of the AIDS Quilt in Portland, ME during National AIDS Day.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Remembrance of a friend and learning about Japanese funeral rites

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
Unintended Detours Episode 6: Derailed
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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Four interwoven stories of lives derailed by serious illness or accident.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2008
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
Becoming the local food supply: a chef turns dairy farmer
From: With Good Reason
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A chef reflects on what led her to stop talking about the benefits of local food supply and become a part of it instead.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
Navigating in Nebraska
From: Lawrence Lanahan
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Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT-HD


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
Necessary Losses
From: Judah Bruce Leblang
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A short first person essay about losing my hearing

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Oct 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1